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...discovered was a sleep state in which the brain is, in many ways, every bit as active as when it's awake; a state in which, compared with other stages of sleep, the heart beats faster, breathing quickens, blood pressure and blood flow to the brain (and sexual organs) rise, while the eyes move rapidly beneath their lids. Brain waves are low-voltage and high-frequency-the opposite to the brain waves of deep sleep, more like what goes on when a person is awake, thinking and talking. Awoken from this paradoxical state that Aserinski and Kleitman called Rapid...
...Human-rights groups say that disappearances and extrajudicial killings are on the rise again. New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a recent report that followers of Vinayagamoorthi Muralitharan, otherwise known as Colonel Karuna, one of the L.T.T.E.'s most senior military leaders who broke away in 2004 and now fights alongside government troops, have been responsible for hundreds of recent abductions. (Karuna and the military deny committing these acts.) The L.T.T.E., too, continues to kidnap potential young fighters. The violence is not chaotic, as in parts of Africa, but controlled and sadistic. It's as if the entire...
CLARIFICATION: The April 2 news analysis "Behind the Scenes, Skepticism Over Skocpol's Rise" did not completely represent the views of History Department chair Andrew D. Gordon '74 on the resignation of Theda Skocpol, dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. In addition to acknowledging disagreements with the dean, Gordon said "I've overall been very impressed with the job she's done, and I'm sorry that she is stepping down...
...easternmost fringe of campus, which I have the dubious distinction of calling home, indeed proffers many unique amenities to its fortunate inhabitants. All students enjoy private bedrooms—hence the much-invoked “Singles for Life” slogan. The upper floors of the high-rise boast panoramas of the Boston skyline. The Soviet-style Brutalist aesthetic endows the courtyard with an ineffable proletariat charm...
Debt isn't necessarily a bad thing. But it does eventually have to be paid back or defaulted on. If the U.S. economy becomes more productive and consumers' incomes rise--as happened, to some extent, in the late 1990s--paying it back might not be a problem. But let's say wages stagnate--one possible consequence of globalization. The alternatives then are debt payments that will slash our standard of living or defaults that could bring a global financial crisis...